Testimonials

"I am one of the home study students. Let me tell you I read and re-read and re-read again until I understood how the casino wins and what you have to do to beat it. What I liked was Andrew's thinking behind the reasons he gives. There were no maybes ifs or buts or emotional responses to play, only the the decisive logic of the maths required to beat the game.

"So after I had done all the drills and practice required, I still didn't like the idea of risking up to $12000 to see if I could win. I bought myself a dealer's shoe and a set of chips so I could as near as possible simulate casino play in placing bets and paying out as I won. I dealt myself 60,000 hands of black jack and recorded the resulting win or loss at the end of each shoe. Playing a red spread, I had won almost exactly what the maths predicted I should win.

"About half way through, I suffered a dramatic loss of about $6000 over about 100 hours of play. However, as this was just practice, I continued on and made a dramatic recovery. Believe me, practice like this gives you enormous confidence in the maths.

"So venturing forth to the casino, I started to play and after 200 hours lost consistently up to $7500. This really tested my faith! I went over everything again to make sure I hadn't missed something. After licking my wounds, Andrew convinced me that 200 hours is too small a statistical sampling and that I should keep on playing.

"After a few weeks I finally plucked up the courage to go back to the casino. I kept staring at the graph I had made of my practice sessions and thought what the hell.

"Well the heavens opened trumpets blared forth and the blackjack gods were favouring me! In the next 150 hours of play, I went from $7500 down to $7500 up, a turn around of $15000!

"I have since gone on to other spreads and after 1100 hours of play am very well up. But believe me, I nearly gave it up and had I not become convinced from my 60,000 hands of practice I might have. Hang in there, it works."

[blackJack-mAsters comment: This student had a particularly horrible initial downward slide but then came back handsomely. Many of our students do not dip down anything like this amount, but we include this story in our testimonials as an example of how even the unluckiest students can recover if they follow the system!]

-----Original Message-----
From: *******
Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:15 AM
To: andrew@bjmasters.com.au
Subject: How's things

Hi Andrew,

My name is ******* I live in Sydney and attended your seminar in sydnay in 2000 and also have purchased the home study kit.. Just like to say that it was excellent...I have a few questions for u I hope u can answer.
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I would still like to keep in contact with u're school and thankyou for responding to my e-mail, keep up the good works.
Cheers *******!

A student's feedback

"I completed the BJ Masters course in October 2002 and passed my table test in March 2003. I have now played over 1000 hours of blackjack and am up over $30,000 with approximately 600 hours on red spread and 400 hours on green spread. Once you have mastered the technical aspects of the game (which in my opinion are not overly difficult, especially if you have played BJ as a normal gambler and have a rough idea of basic strategy already), the only way to succeed in the long term is to win the psychological battle in your own head. You must be mentally tough and able to withstand the trauma of losing large wads of cash on a regular basis. In order to do this you must believe the underlying mathematics, which are the fundamental basis of card counting (the normal distribution and its properties must become your friend). "

A student's account of his progression through the spreads of Professional BlackJack

"After completing the BJ Masters course in November 1997 and then training at home for several months, I passed my table test at the start of January 1998 and have been playing professional blackjack ever since.

"For the reason of protecting my identity from casino staff, I can say only that I play predominantly in one of the larger Australian casinos although I have played in nearly all Australian casinos and several overseas. I intend to travel and play a lot more overseas, now that I have become a black plan player in Australia.

"I lasted 6 months on the starting level of red plan (low stakes blackjack with a starting bankroll of $10000-) and learnt a lot just being in the casino and observing the way the casinos operated, before I graduated to the next level, green plan (bankroll $30,000). This plan lasted another 12 months, as I was still working full time, in my real (9-5) job and playing as often as I could, which was between 10 and 20 hours per week.

"I was only able to graduate to the next level of blue plan (bankroll $80000-) when I had won the money required . The more I played the more my results were close to or right on the forecast expected wins for the plan I was playing.

"I lasted another 12 months on blue plan before I finally made the transition to black plan (bankroll $200,000-) which I have been playing ever since July 2000.

"Right up until the time I started on black plan, which is basically high stakes blackjack, I kept working my normal job. However I no longer have a full time job as such but rather make the majority of my income from blackjack and choose to do contract work that takes up about 15 hours per week.

"I play blackjack full time (30 hours per week) now and do those hours basically when I choose, although they are predominantly in the early afternoons or evenings. This allows me the freedom to do what I want when I want and fit in my hours at the casino around whatever else I am doing.

"I am also travelling interstate to play approximately every 6 weeks and usually stay at a casino for about 4 or 5 days. I have only been overseas to play a couple of times but now plan to do 3-4 trips per year. At all the casinos I play at I am treated as a VIP and the casinos pay for all my rooms, travel (business or first class), and accommodation.

"I don't want to make this a sales letter but I would like to recommend the course and also the ongoing support I have received from the bJ Masters team.

"I was incredibly skeptical when I first did the course and was continually wondering where's the catch, but now I just enjoy what bJ Masters has taught me to do."